Deborah Watling named this as her favourite story, in part due to the experience of working with her father. Travers watches in awe as the pyramid begins to glow and expand. It begins to release a noise that causes him such distress he runs from the cave. Professor Edward Travers, an anthropologist and explorer, is awoken from his sleep by the screams of a man and goes to investigate. He is horrified to see a lumbering, hairy creature standing over his companion John's lifeless body. It grabs Travers' gun and twists it into scrap metal as the terrified man scampers into the night. Very similar to The Wheel in Space [+] Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., the only known copy of The Abominable Snowmen to not have been confirmed as destroyed is the prints sent to Nigeria. Given The Enemy of the World [+] Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW. and The Web of Fear [+] Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, Doctor Who season 5 ( BBC1, 1968). (except for Episode 3, which is disappeared before its shipment to the BBC) are both recovered from the country and The Abominable Snowmen wasn't, its fate is mysterious. It was possibly sent to another country off-record or the episodes were obtained by private collectors.

Episode two was shown alongside episode one of the The Web of Fear (then the only surviving episode of the serial) as part of BSB's Doctor Who Weekend in September 1990, under the banner of The Yeti Rarities. All episodes except for episode 2 are missing. [5] Brief clips from episode 4 exclusively focusing on the Yeti also exist. The Doctor must convince the monks that not only is he not their enemy, but the real foe – and the power controlling the Yeti – is living amongst them. Their ancient Master, Padmasambhava, is being controlled by an alien entity known only as the Great Intelligence. Elsewhere in the monastery, Travers is delirious and incoherent in his ramblings about the glowing pyramid and a great evil that threatens them all. The Doctor and his companions are kept in their cell as the Yetis maraud through the monastery. Jamie is very worried for Victoria. If you think about it bbc america actually didn’t withdraw funding. They were contracted for 7 stories (power, shada, faceless,fury, evil, g4 and abominable) and they fulfilled that contract. They just decided not to do any more beyond that.The Doctor must convince the monks that not only is he not their enemy, but the real foe – and the power controlling the Yeti – is living amongst them. This is Doctor Who’s first on screen encounter with Buddhists, the second being 1974’s Jon Pertwee’s send-off, Planet of the Spiders. If these stories are anything to go by, the believers are always harbingers of horrible “furry beasties”, as Jamie says here. Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. Savage Yeti are besieging a Buddhist monastery. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive expecting a friendly welcome from the abbot, but soon become ensnared in the plans of the extradimensional being known as the Great Intelligence.

Er.. that would be a “NO” then. Still it is hard to beat Haisman’s response to Shyama’s opening question… The Doctor is certain he is being watched and elects to travel to the monastery first. Victoria soon gets bored of the TARDIS and convinces Jamie to explore. It was initially reported that the animated reconstruction of this story would be the last Doctor Who animation due to BBC America withdrawing their funding. [4] Neither BBC America or BBC Studios confirmed nor denied these claims though it eventually proved to not be the case with the news in August 2023 that The Underwater Menace [+] Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW. was being animated [5]. In the inner sanctum, it has been decided that the Doctor should leave the monastery. And if he is not to leave, he is to be persuaded. The Doctor has been tied up by his hands to some kind of pulley which is connected to the gate. No matter how much he protests, it falls on deaf ears.

However, I do recommend this animated adaptation. It is one of the best and the story still stands up today. I laughed when the Doctor explained to his companions that they will receive a warm welcome at the monastery, only to find the reverse is true when he actually gets there. This exact setup is used in episode two of the recent Lord of the Ring: Rings of Power TV series. Old Doctor Who still does these tropes so much better than other, newer shows. On 23 November 2021, it was announced that the story would be released on DVD and Blu-ray, with animations of all six episodes alongside the surviving Episode Two. [12] In the 17th century, an old Tibetan friend of the Doctor’s reached out and touched the mind of an alien disembodied energy, known only as the Great Intelligence, giving it a conduit to Earth.

All known copies of episode two, including audio recordings made by fans during the original broadcast in 1967, contain a brief audio drop-out late in the episode. The Doctor is examining the captured Yeti and is supposed to say, "You were right about one thing, Victoria. This creature certainly doesn't seem to be flesh and blood." In what appears to have been a fault with the master videotape recording, the sound cuts in with "...toria." The fact that the audio recordings of episode two also include this loss of sound indicates that the episode was transmitted with the fault intact. The original VHS release of episode two was edited to remove the silent section and "...toria", coming in instead on the Second Doctor's next line. This was done to avoid customer complaints that the tape was faulty, whilst maintaining the running time of the episode. The DVD release contains a "patchwork repair" of the fault, originally performed by Mark Ayres of the Doctor Who Restoration Team for the BBC Audio CD release, which uses the appropriate words spoken by Troughton with the correct vocal inflexions, taken from other Second Doctor episodes.Craig, David. "Doctor Who animations of lost episodes 'cancelled' ". Radio Times. Immediate Media Company. p.13 January 2022 . Retrieved 26 September 2022. Victoria has ventured alone to the Inner Sanctum of the monastery where Padmasambhava invites her in. He is an ancient and wizened man. The Abominable Snowmen is the mostly missing second serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 30 September to 4 November 1967.

Jamie tries to awaken Victoria but is thwarted. The Doctor helps Victoria recover from her trance-like state by counter-hypnotising her. She forgets everything that has happened since she left the cell earlier. The Doctor protests he has no idea to what Travers is referring. He does say he has encountered Yetis before, and they are naturally timid so wouldn't have inflicted any damage on him or his friend. Considering work on evil finished july 2021 and that team never got any more commissions the choice would have been made not to do any more quite some time ago.Shaun Lyon; etal. (31 March 2007). "The Abominable Snowmen". Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008 . Retrieved 30 August 2008. Warrior Monks - Pat Gorman, Crawford Lyle, Richard King, Michael Durham, Antonio de Maggio, Barry Dupres The six new animated episodes are being made in full colour and high definition and will include the following exclusive special features: